The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

Life is available only in the present moment.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.